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TimeSpan Constructor (Int64)

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Initializes a new instance of the TimeSpan structure to the specified number of ticks.

Namespace:   System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

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public:
TimeSpan(
	long long ticks
)

Parameters

ticks
Type: System::Int64

A time period expressed in 100-nanosecond units.

A single tick represents one hundred nanoseconds or one ten-millionth of a second. There are 10,000 ticks in a millisecond.

The following example creates several TimeSpan objects using the constructor overload that initializes a TimeSpan to a specified number of ticks.

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// Example of the TimeSpan( __int64 ) constructor.
using namespace System;

// Create a TimeSpan object and display its value.
void CreateTimeSpan( __int64 ticks )
{
   TimeSpan elapsedTime = TimeSpan(ticks);

   // Format the constructor for display.
   String^ ctor = String::Format( "TimeSpan( {0} )", ticks );

   // Pad the end of a TimeSpan string with spaces if
   // it does not contain milliseconds.
   String^ elapsedStr = elapsedTime.ToString();
   int pointIndex = elapsedStr->IndexOf( ':' );
   pointIndex = elapsedStr->IndexOf( '.', pointIndex );
   if ( pointIndex < 0 )
      elapsedStr = String::Concat( elapsedStr, "        " );


   // Display the constructor and its value.
   Console::WriteLine( "{0,-33}{1,24}", ctor, elapsedStr );
}

int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine( "This example of the TimeSpan( __int64 ) constructor "
   "\ngenerates the following output.\n" );
   Console::WriteLine( "{0,-33}{1,16}", "Constructor", "Value" );
   Console::WriteLine( "{0,-33}{1,16}", "-----------", "-----" );
   CreateTimeSpan( 1 );
   CreateTimeSpan( 999999 );
   CreateTimeSpan(  -1000000000000 );
   CreateTimeSpan( 18012202000000 );
   CreateTimeSpan( 999999999999999999 );
   CreateTimeSpan( 1000000000000000000 );
}

/*
This example of the TimeSpan( __int64 ) constructor
generates the following output.

Constructor                                 Value
-----------                                 -----
TimeSpan( 1 )                            00:00:00.0000001
TimeSpan( 999999 )                       00:00:00.0999999
TimeSpan( -1000000000000 )            -1.03:46:40
TimeSpan( 18012202000000 )            20.20:20:20.2000000
TimeSpan( 999999999999999999 )   1157407.09:46:39.9999999
TimeSpan( 1000000000000000000 )  1157407.09:46:40
*/

Universal Windows Platform
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
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